Leonardo DiCaprio
Born in LA in 1974, Leonardo was a TV actor (including, early on, milk commercials) and bit-part player in movies before hitting his stride with This Boy's Life, What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and The Basketball Diaries, all tricky roles sensitively handled
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Filmography Highlights
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Inception
2010- Rated:
- 12A
Leonardo DiCaprio is a professional thief paid to steal secrets from people's minds as they dream. But is his own shady past compromising his unique skills and the safety of those around him?
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Shutter Island
2010- Rated:
- 15
DiCaprio arrives on Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of an inmate from the island's isolated asylum for the criminally insane. The case doesn't add up - is there a conspiracy afoot?
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Orphan
2009- Rated:
- 15
Esther is a precocious little girl adopted from an orphanage by well-meaning couple Kate and John Coleman - but it soon emerges that she may not be all she seems
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Revolutionary Road
2008- Rated:
- 15
A couple in 1950s America dream of escaping their suffocating suburban existence in American Beauty director Sam Mendes' adaptation of Richard Yates' classic novel. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star
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Body Of Lies
2008- Rated:
- 15
An ageing CIA agent and his young counterpart have very different approaches to cracking the current terrorism crisis. Middle Eastern espionage thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, and produced and directed by Ridley Scott
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The 11th Hour
2007- Rated:
- 12A
Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary project brings together an array of experts to drive home the imminent environmental disasters faced by Earth unless mankind takes radical steps
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The Departed
2006- Rated:
- 18
Martin Scorsese's hard-hitting, tough-talking, Oscar-winning thriller stars Matt Damon as Colin Sullivan, infiltrating the police and cop Leonardo DiCaprio going undercover in the Mob.
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Blood Diamond
2006- Rated:
- 15
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a gem smuggler tracking down a near-priceless diamond in this issue-led adventure-drama
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The Aviator
2004- Rated:
- 12
The life of great American maverick Howard Hughes as recreated by director Martin Scorsese, writer John Logan and star Leonardo DiCaprio
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Gangs Of New York
2002- Rated:
- 18
The story of the messy birth of New York out of the blood and fire of gang warfare, presided over by rivals Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis
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Catch Me If You Can
2002- Rated:
- 12A
Leonardo DiCaprio effortlessly charms his way through Steven Spielberg's zippy, lightweight chase thriller, the real life tale of con man extraordinaire Frank Abagnale Jr
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Man in the Iron Mask, The
1998- Rated:
- 12
Dumas won't have stopped spinning in his grave since this big-budget atrocity hit the screen. Despite a cast to die for - Malkovich, Depardieu and Irons as the Three Musketeers, and a double dose of
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Celebrity
1998- Rated:
- 18
Latter-day Allen films are frequently dismissed in favour of those 'early, funnier films', but few would deny that he continues to intrigue. Branagh gets to do a Woody impersonation as a gossip journ
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Titanic
1997- Rated:
- 12
Bloated spectacle movie in which the central romance between Leonardo DiCaprio's poor artist and Kate Winslet's society girl is overwhelmed by the monumental recreation of the historical disaster
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Romeo + Juliet
1996- Rated:
- 12
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is a lively, visually-striking adaptation of the Bard's tragic romance. Baz Luhrmann injects enough verve and colour to win over even the most jaded GCSE student
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Marvin's Room
1996- Rated:
- TBC
The effect of terminal illness on family relationships is a subject exploited by many Hollywood films, usually to powerful and prize-winning effect. This, adapted from a successful Broadway play, is no exception
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Total Eclipse
1995- Rated:
- 18
Getting it right when doing a film about artists is difficult. Too much delving into what makes them tick can look pretentious, too little and it makes them look boring. Hollander here makes a noble
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The Quick And The Dead
1995- Rated:
- 15
A mysterious woman enters a gun fighting contest in a wretched prairie town. Sam Raimi's stylised western stars Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio
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Basketball Diaries, The
1995- Rated:
- 18
Controversial adaptation of Jim Carroll's experiences as a teenage junkie. Stars young Leonardo DiCaprio, who gives one of his finest turns
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
1993- Rated:
- 12
Johhny Depp stars in this comedy-drama as the eldest son in an eccentric Iowa family who has to take responsibility for disabled younger brother Leonardo DiCaprio
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This Boy's Life
1993- Rated:
- 15
A rites of passage drama set in backcountry Washington state, featuring an early star turn from Leonardo DiCaprio. Also stars Robert DeNiro
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